2018 Festival

Closing Night Drinks

Sunday 7th October
Tom Thumb Theatre bar (upstairs)
Join the festival team in the bar for a celebratory drink before and after the closing night screening of Only Fools & Horses. Free entry, no ticket required, just turn
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Shorts Programme 2: Eccentric Realities

Saturday 6th,
Cliffs
Join Short Sighted Cinema for a selection of short documentary films exploring the eccentric oddities and passionate pursuits of some of our greatest and geekiest citizens.
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Shorts Programme 3: Animation Bazaar

Saturday 6th
Cliffs
Join Short Sighted Cinema for a selection of wild and whacky animated short films, guaranteed to make you ask ‘wtf?!’ and keep you laughing for days.
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High Spirits! Family Film Club

Saturday 6th October
101 Social Club
A morning matinee screening a selection of our favourite cartoons and telefilms from the ’70s and ’80s. 101 Social Club becomes the space before, between and beyond decades where yesterday’s
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Seaside Sessions: Music Video Basement

Sunday 7th
Cliffs (basement)
Seaside Sessions are teaming up with Margate Film Festival to present an afternoon of live music from local artists, alongside a programme of music videos filmed on location around Thanet.
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Q&A

The Creeping Garden

Sunday 7th October
Tom Thumb Theatre
A real life science fiction movie exploring a world creeping right beneath our feet, where time and space are magnified and intelligence redefined.
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Shorts Programme 1: This Is Britain

Saturday 6th,
Cliffs
Join Short Sighted Cinema for a diverse selection of short films exploring the unique facets of ‘Britishness’ through an entertaining and eye-opening look at our characters, culture and our many,
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Opening Night

Opening Night Drinks

Wednesday 3rd October
Tom Thumb Theatre bar (upstairs)
Join the festival team in the bar for a celebratory drink before and after the opening night screening of Pin Cushion. Free entry, no ticket required, just turn up and
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Stories, Shadows & Silent Film

Sunday 7th October
Palace Cinema, Broastairs – Harbour St, Broadstairs CT10 1NL
The Palace Cinema, Wall of Sea & Margate Film Festival present an exciting opportunity for parents and children to explore classic silent short shadow animations by early filmmaker Lotte Reiniger
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Lucy: My Transgender Life

Friday 5th October
Tom Thumb Theatre
Lucy candidly shares her transgender journey, speaking in emotive detail about the struggles she has overcome and finding acceptance in East London’s euphoric queer club scene.
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1927: The Animals & Children Took To The Streets

Friday 5th October & Saturday 6th October
Theatre Royal
Welcome to the Bayou, a part of the city feared and loathed wherein lies the infamous Bayou Mansions; a sprawling stinking tenement block, where curtain-twitchers and peeping-toms live side by
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Travelogue: Seaside Dream

Saturday 6th
Tom Thumb Theatre
Specially created for Margate Film Festival, this evening’s programme will contain a collection of short films exploring Margate’s coast as a holiday destination. A love of Thanet’s coast and the
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Closing Night

Only Fools & Horses: Jolly Boy’s Outing

Sunday 7th October
Tom Thumb Theatre
Join in on a luvvly jubbly closing night special screening of the 1989 feature-length Christmas special of classic British comedy-gone-wrong. A typically tearaway Trotter’s treat!
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Umut Gunduz: Omphalos

Saturday 6th
Cliffs (basement)
The tidal pool of Walpole Bay has become the central meeting point for so many residents of Margate. Season-in, season-out, the hardcore bathers of the area congregate; gently floating, swimming,
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Lost In Vagueness

Saturday 6th October
Tom Thumb Theatre
A night to celebrate, re-live and rejoice in the world that was Lost Vagueness, the infamous party that ‘reinvigorated Glastonbury Festival’. A festival highlight for the very wrongly behaved.
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Opening Night

Opening Night: Pin Cushion

Wednesday 3rd October
Tom Thumb Theatre
A dark and twisted modern-day fairytale of a unique mother-daughter duo: two glittering misfits trying to make friends in a new town.
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